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Given that the total comp package is $300k base + $600k profit share, I don’t think any of their livelihoods are at stake. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
by sillysaurusx 3y ago
Given that the total comp package is $300k base + $600k profit share, I don’t think any of their livelihoods are at stake. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36460082 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36460082
You’re probably right because people usually don’t have an appetite for risk, but OpenAI is still a startup, and one does not join a startup without an appetite for risk. At least before ChatGPT made the company famous, which was recent.
I’d follow Sam and Greg. But N=1 outsider isn’t too persuasive.
- jacquesm 3y ago> I’d follow Sam and Greg. Once the avalanche has stopped moving that's a free decision, right now it could be costly.
- elcritch 3y agoOpenAI isn’t a normal startup. It was founded as a research focused not for profit. That 300k+ base comp isn’t what I’d consider “risky” either. Career wise it never seemed risky as some of the fields top AI researchers were there from day almost one.